Biography of Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace 1815-1852

On 2nd January 1815 [her father] George "Lord Byron" 6th Baron Byron (age 26) and [her mother] Anne Isabella Noel Baroness Byron 11th Baroness Wentworth (age 22) were married at Seaham Hall, County Durham. The officiating clergyman was her cousin, the Reverend Thomas Noel (age 41) of Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, illegitimate son of her uncle, Viscount Wentworth (age 69). She by marriage Baroness Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire.

On 10th December 1815 Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace was born to [her father] George "Lord Byron" 6th Baron Byron (age 27) and [her mother] Anne Isabella Noel Baroness Byron 11th Baroness Wentworth (age 23). Her parents separated a month after her birth and her father left England forever. He died when she was eight years old.

On 8th July 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley (age 29) drowned. He was returning on the Don Juan with Edward Williams from a meeting at Livorno with Leigh Hunt and Byron to make arrangements for a new journal, The Liberal. The boat was sunk is a storm. Shelley's badly decomposed body washed ashore at Viareggio ten days later and was identified by Trelawny from the clothing and a copy of Keats's Lamia in a jacket pocket. On 16th August 1822 his body was cremated on a beach near Viareggio and the ashes were buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Rome. The cremation was attended by [her father] George "Lord Byron" 6th Baron Byron (age 34). His wife Mary Godwin aka Shelley (age 24) did not attend.

On 19th April 1824 [her father] George "Lord Byron" 6th Baron Byron (age 36) died at Missolonghi. He was buried at Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire. His first cousin George (age 35) succeeded 7th Baron Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire.

On 4th June 1833 Peter King 7th Baron King (age 56) died. His son [her future husband] William (age 28) succeeded 8th Baron King of Ockham in Surrey.

In 1835 William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace (age 29) and Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 19) were married.

Around 1836. Margaret Sarah Carpenter nee Geddes (age 43). Portrait of Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 20).

On 12th May 1836 [her son] Byron King-Noel 12th Baron Wentworth 16th Baron Despencer was born to [her husband] William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace (age 31) and Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 20)

On 22nd September 1837 [her daughter] Anne King-Noel 15th Baroness Wentworth was born to [her husband] William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace (age 32) and Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 21). She married (1) 1869 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and had issue.

The London Gazette 19629. Whitehall, June 23, 1838. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Marquess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto Constantine Henry Earl of Mulgrave (age 41), and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Marquess of Normanby, in the county of York. [Maria Liddell Marchioness Normanby (age 40) by marriage Marchioness Normanby.]

The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the said United Kingdom, unto [her husband] William Baron King (age 33), and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Ockham, of Ockham, in the county of Surrey, and Earl of Lovelace. [Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 22) by marriage Countess Lovelace. She was a descendant of the previous Baron Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire.]

The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of an Earl of the said United Kingdom, unto Laurence Baron Dundas (age 72), and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Earl of Zetland.

On 2nd July 1839 [her son] Ralph King-Milbanke 2nd Earl of Lovelace was born to [her husband] William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace (age 34) and Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 23) at 10 St James' Square.

On 27th November 1852 Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace (age 36) died.

On 29th December 1893 [her former husband] William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace (age 88) died. His son [her son] Ralph (age 54) succeeded 2nd Earl Lovelace, 2nd Viscount Ockham of Ockham in Surrey, 9th Baron King of Ockham in Surrey.